Last week, the UK announced that South Africa would remain on its travel ‘red list’. The reasoning doesn’t hold up under basic scrutiny.
There’s a scheduled change for the UK’s “traffic light” system pending, and it could spell great news for South Africans who want to travel to and from the UK.
The petition to get South Africa off of the UK’s red list needed 10 000 signatures to force the UK government to respond, with that number already comfortably exceeded.
South Africa’s economy is losing out on millions of rands every day that the country remains on the UK’s ‘red list’.
South Africans are still on the UK’s red list, which means there are really strict (and very costly) travel requirements for Saffas touching down.
South Africans were the most restricted travellers in the world at the beginning of this year. For vaccinated South Africans, international travel is now opening bit by bit.
The UK has loosened its COVID-19 restrictions from today, which means more socialising, hugging, and travelling for the Brits going forward.